SITE FOR SUBSIDIARY HOSPITAL

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22335, 24 February 1938, Page 14

SITE FOR SUBSIDIARY HOSPITAL

* AREA AT CASHMERE SELECTED SECTION TO BE PURCHASED FOR £2500 Subject to the approval of the Health Department, the North Canterbury Hospital Board will buy between s. and 17 acres of land at the foot j Cashmere Hills as a site for the su sidiary hospital which it decided some months ago to establish in ChristchuT to relieve the Public Hospital. The section is on Cashmere road, between Hackthorne road and the Cashm jf: plantation, and the vendor isi . g Cashmere Estate, the price £ 2500. , i its In his report to the board meeting yesterday morning, the cn man ot the finance committee tMT B. Evans) said that the committee n*u inspected various properties one«« as a site for the hospital, and reco mended the purchase of the fano Cashmere as the most suitable. After a discussion in committee, was decided, on the motion of Mess* Evans and H. H. Holland, to the offer of the Cashmere site suo ject to the departments A committee, consisting of f man of the board iMr H. Jchairman of the finance committee, the chairman of the hospital c mm iMr Holland), was set up to meet m trustees of the estate and discuss boundaries of the section.